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Author: Clarinat
Date: 2009-11-22 08:01
I was just wondering if anyone knows of a concerto under 20mins. I am applying for the University concerto comp and it has to be under 20mins with "basic" orchestration so sadly Copland is out.
It can be part of a concerto.....
Thanks for any ideas!
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-11-22 12:43
The Copland is for strings plus piano and harp. Any university will have a harp, though you may have trouble finding someone to play it, and pianos are everywhere.
Any of the early concertos would come in under 20 minutes -- either of the Stamitzes, Pokorny, Kramer/Krommer, or, if you can get hold of a D clarinet, the Molters. Look in Dieter Klocker's discography. He's discovered dozens of them.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Robert Moody
Date: 2009-11-24 03:00
Silly question: Have you checked to make sure that it technically HAS to be a "Concerto"? Maybe it can be another form like Weber's Concertino or Debussy's Premiere Rhapsody. Must it be all three movements of the concerto?
Robert Moody
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-11-24 15:35
I've got the concerto for you (I think)...
Concertino in B-flat major for Clarinet and Small Orchestra by Ferruccio Busoni.
(A concertino is nothing more than a smaller scale concerto, which is exactly what you're looking for)
You need only 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, percussion (triangle, maybe?), and strings--nothing strange. You can rent the orchestral parts from Breitkopf & Haertel.
The clarinet part you can download online for free because it's in the public domain:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Concertino_for_Clarinet_and_Small_Orchestra,_Op.48,_BV_276_(Busoni,_Ferruccio)
There are several recordings of this piece out there, including several on iTunes (I have the BBC Philharmonic/John Bradbury recording, which I like quite a bit--I think Paul Meyer recorded it, too). You can even listen to a video of the piece (complete with piano score) on YouTube (although there are better, more exciting recordings than this one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CSchokhw_o
It's a really interesting piece because it's kind of a musical collage of different styles (it's an early 20th century piece written right at the cusp of the Romantic and Neoclassical eras). It sounds sort of like Mozart, Rossini, Weber, Brahms, Nielsen, and the soundtrack to Harry Potter and Sorceror's Stone all rolled into one. It basically packs about 200 years of musical ideas into 11 minutes, which I would think would make it an especially good piece to use for auditions. Great piece! (and highly underplayed) Give it a listen/look!
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2009-11-24 16:34
Robert, When it is listed as a concerto competition it almost always means solo piece with orchestra so the Debussy or Concertino works just fine and are good pieces for this purpose. Other than those and some of the suggestions listed above you can always do the 2nd and 3rd mov't from one of the standards like Webers 1 or 2, Spohr, Stamitz or Mozart. The Copland will probably work because even if they don't have a harp player they can always use a piano in it's place but be aware, the orchestra parts are very difficult, very high and difficult violin part. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: donald
Date: 2009-11-26 19:29
The thing is, she needs a concerto that can compete against the fabulous (and virtuoso) piano/string repertoire (plus, people who will be playing quality music for the whole 20min... not just the 10min of Weber Concertino/Debussy Prem Rhap). Last thing I heard she had decided to do the Nielsen with a cut or two to bring it down to 20min. My suggestion was for the 2nd and 3rd of Spohr 2. The people running the competition were very specific- NO Harp or Piano, ruling out Copeland.
dn
btw Nat has already performed the Weber Conc with an Orchestra and she was great (also got a brilliant review in the press).
Post Edited (2009-11-27 04:23)
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Author: Mike Blinn
Date: 2009-11-27 04:48
Dare I suggest Artie Shaw's Concerto for Clarinet? It's about ten minutes long. I heard David Shifrin perform it at Yale a few months ago and it's a great piece. Lots of fun.
Mike Blinn
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